Buckle.



PATENTED JULY 28, 1908.

I. BLUM. BUCKLE.

AP PZLIOATION FILED OCT. 16, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrro.

ISAAC BLUM, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO ALMA MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY, OF BALTIMORE," MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

BUCKLE Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Application filed October 16, 1907. Serial No; 397,728.

Patented July 28, 1908.

To all whom it mar concern: I

Be it known that I, "ISAAC BLUM, a citizen.

The object of this invention is to improve the efficiency of that class of one-p' ce buckles in which a bight or bend is put into the strap as it rises from the fastening prongs.

T e bight or bend is efiected by means of a cross-bar, a portionof which is of box-form and stands up above the plane of the face. of

the buckle and another portion of which is flat and is depressed into or nearly into the plane of the back of the buckle or below such plane,.and this flattportion is adapted to receive the fastening mediums for attaching the buckle to a garment or other article, solid or hollow rivets, or headed eyeletspr'ef erably being used as such fastening mediums.

In the accompanyin drawings, illustrating the invention, in t e several fi ures of 2-5 whichlike parts are similarly desi nated, Figure 1 is a perspective view-of the uckle. Fig. 2 is a to plan or face view, showing the buckle attac ed tov apiece of fabric. Fig. 3

is a longitudinal section of the buckle de- 39 tached. Fig. 4 is a longitudinalsection of the buckle attached to an article and having the adjustable part in fastened position, 1

taken in the planeof line AB, Fig. 2. y The buckle has a frame 'co'm used of the concavo-convex side-bars 1' an end-bars 2 and 3 as usu'aL- The end-'bar3 has the'teeth .or rongs 4, the. center one of which is, by .pre erenc'e,lon'ger than the others so as to ingsure'engagement with the adjustable part 5.

A du lex cross-bar crosses from one sidebar to t e other, aboutmidway between the end-bars, and that portion 6 of the cross-bar 'nearest to the toothedendbar is of boX- form,'a1 id,s ringsupwardly or outwardly, rel- .atively to t e face of. the buckle, and above. or beyond the plane of the face of the buckle, so as'to form an elevation above the face of the buckle over which the adjustable part 5 desired to raise the buckle bodily above the article to which it is attached. This portion 7 is flat and provided with holes 8 to receive fastening mediums by which the buckle is attached to an article 9. Three such holes 8 are shown and two rivets, but in some instances only one rivet would be required, and in that case the middle hole only would be used. There is an obvious economy in using one rivet, and the buckles, therefore, are

equiipiped with the two side holes, which won be used when two rivets are necessary, and the intermediate hole, which would be used when only one rivet is required. It is, referred to use solid or hollow rivets 'oreaded eyelets 1 0,as the fastening mediums. As clearly shown in Fig. 4, the attaching of thebuckle by a cross-bar arranged substantially midway-between its ends, leaves the ends free for the passage of the adjustable part 5', and the box-form given to one portion of this cross-bar provides an elevation which puts a bight or bend in the adjustable part sufficient to retain it in engagement with the teeth. Moreover, the duplex character of the cross-bar adds great stiffness and strength to the buckle. This form of buckle while of rather wide applicability, is specially available in side straps on trousers and other garments. 3 I Y What I claim is z- 1. A buckle, having a frame provided with a cross-bar oneportion of which is elevated above the face of the frame and of box-form to put a bight or bend in the strap passed over it and the other portion depressed below the face of the frame and flat to receive an attaching medium.

2. A; buckle, having a cross-bar of boxform with a flat attaching portion depressed below the face of the buckle.

, 3. A buckle, having a cross-bar. one portion of which is elevated above the plane of a the face of the buckle and of box-form and another portion integral with the box-form portion which is depressed substantially into the planeof the back of'the buckle.

4;A buckle,.having a cross-bar one portionof which is elevated above'the plane of the face of the buckle and of box-form and another-portion'integral with the box-form portion which is depfessed substantially into the plane of the bac of the buckle and is flat .and provided with holes to receive'attaching rivets for securing it toan article.

5. A buckle, having side-bars, a toothed end-bar and another end-bar, and an interelevated portion of the cross-bar and its free mediate cross-bar one portion of which next end is readily passed beneath the other endto the toothed end-bar'is of box-form and bar.

elevated above the plane of the face of the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 15 5 buckle, and another and integral portion of my hand this 15th day of October A. D.

which is depressed substantially into the l 1907 plane of the back of the buckle and flat to i receive the attaching means, whereby the ISAAC BLUM' part of an article to be fastened is engaged by I Witnesses: 10 the teeth and held in such engagement by the J. G. ROSENHEIM,

bight or bend put into it as it passes over the l AB H. GREENCLAW; 

